Maitland Updates Comprehensive Land Plan

June 25, 1986|By Donna L. Bouffard of The Sentinel Staff

MAITLAND — The city council has unanimously approved an update of its zoning codes and comprehensive development plan.

One of the biggest changes to affect businesses is the council's decision to reduce the number of new drive entrances onto U.S. Highway 17-92. The city's position primarily concerns corner properties with frontage on the highway and on a side street. To reduce traffic congestion, the council voted not to allow access to the properties from the highway where a side street is available.

Dick Wells, manager of the city's community development division, said U.S. 17-92 ''is a high volume, high speed road. In regard to these properties, we feel this decision would improve the appearance and decrease the traffic hazard.''

The revised comprehensive development plan also discourages road expansion. It restricts the widening of Maitland, Horatio, and Lake avenues; Maitland Boulevard, Sandspur and Wymore roads. Instead, the city plans to improve traffic flow with other measures such as optional turn lanes.

Councilman Bill Donegan said coordinating the plan and zoning codes ''is not a council decision but a plan developed by the community on how it wants to grow and what it wants to be without chaos.''

The development plan divides the city into planning districts. Within each planning district are zoning classifications that list the types of buildings that will be allowed.

In other action at Monday's meeting, the council:

-- Voted to approve funding for an emergency generator. The generator will provide limited electrical power to city hall and the fire and police departments during power failures.

-- The council agreed to spend $28,000 to reroof city hall and a section of the Maitland Public Library.